Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Sinclair

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

J. Taylor

I don't blame them for organizing. If I was a newly arrived immigrant in this country, because we are all at one point or another immigrants, I would be upset with the rhetoric being thrown around in response to their hard work and efforts in this country.

Silvio Berlusconi

He is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight.

Bob Capener

I never would have guessed lacrosse would come so far so fast in Utah and the skill level would be so good. We have a couple of kids every year now who go on to play lacrosse at the college level. Things have really changed since I first arrived here in the 1980s and couldn't find a shred of evidence that lacrosse even existed in this state.

Helen Fielding

I recently bought a house in L.A., and I was so pleased with myself. I thought I had arrived and I was going to be glamorous and live in Hollywood and it was going to be marvelous. Cut to six weeks later. The first time it rained the ceiling collapsed,

Caron Butler

I'm just happy because this is such a great situation for me and my family, ... I know a good fit when I see one and from the time I arrived here in Washington, the organization has made me and my family feel so welcome. I'm excited about knowing that my future will be with this team.

Sydney Brenner

I immediately began to read about bacterial viruses and in October 1952 I arrived in Oxford to do a Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

Monica Crowley

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

Harold Wilson

The judge then handed down three sentences of death -- one for each of the victims. After he said it, I was wondering, how are they going to kill me three times? I was transferred to the death row facility. When I arrived at the facility, I was housed in isolation from the general population. I was in shock. I was in a different world.

Stieg Larsson

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Jonathan Witz

In creating this event, we researched some really cold winter events, taking into consideration fun for the family and celebrating what's great about winter in Michigan. Last year was a huge success and we promise an even more spectacular event in 2006 -- the perfect backdrop for Super Bowl XL.

Chris Gibson

The exchange has clearly demonstrated its robust strength as an independent business, delivering strong results despite the backdrop of an offer period and the significant resources this has entailed,

Paul Niven

Oil stocks are still not discounting as strong a backdrop for the oil price as we anticipate, so we still think there is some value in terms of the oil price.

Cheech Marin

It's good, but it's more of a backdrop to another little story I want to tell, and I'm going to direct that. Jeffrey Hatcher who did 'Stage Beauty' is doing the script. It's kind of like a backstage drama.

Michael Niemira

There was lots and lots of discounting this holiday season. From the beginning of November onward, it was very promotional and remains a backdrop for the season.

Gayle Cuneo

The students love the production beyond words. We rented a backdrop from Hollywood, and we borrowed some costumes from the high school. We've a grand project going here.

Yasuhisa Ishida

The US reports turned out disappointing. This provided the backdrop for the yen being bought more than expected.

Doug Porter

The recovery in the global financial backdrop is a key part of the outlook for tightening,

Derek Feltner

Jake and I are beyond the point of telling each other what we want to do. I know it sounds strange, but we just know each other.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Marco Coleman

I would say the difference between Coughlin and a guy like Marty was Coughlin took it a little beyond the football field,

Jim Cameron

It can't be fixed. It's beyond the stage of tweaking.

Wes Miller

I always dreamed of playing in this tournament and here at Greensboro. It is still beyond even what I imagined it could be.

Orhan Pamuk

he complains. ''Otherwise it's offensive to discuss poverty and suicide; they talk about these things as if they happen in a land beyond the civilized world.

Robert Wollan

Handling the increasing number and complexity of the customer intentions is now beyond a simple set of transactions in most industries, so customers have to be carefully led to the right place.

Carrie Graf

Her knee and the referee are getting to her. She's got to get beyond that. She's tough. She will.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. As he has shown in the Majors he is well deserving and wise beyond his years, pitching wise.

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Michael Apted

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Theresa May

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Mayor Stewart

This indicates continued economic growth for the city of New Britain and proves that we are on the right track in expanding our tax base. Our efforts to encourage new businesses to move to our city and existing businesses to expand are paying off.

John Prescott

It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France.

Inayat Bunglawala

This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.

Mike Hamilton

He's been somewhat of an evangelist, a circuit-riding preacher. He's connected with the fan base.

Eve Ensler

I was drawn to vaginas because of my own personal history, because of sexuality, because women's empowerment is deeply connected to their sexuality. And, I'm obsessed with women being violated and raped, and with incest. All of these things are deeply connected to our vaginas.

Apparat

In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.

Jason Mraz

In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they're connected to me through that.

Jess Margera

I have no problem being connected with Bam. He's my brother, and he's helped us out. But I think it's time we stand out on our own. We're trying to take it to the next level all by ourselves.

Fay Vincent

I knew who John Dowd was, but he wasn't connected at all with baseball.

Kevin Kwan

I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.

Aaron Copland

I'm really glad I came. I feel a lot more connected now.

Maurice Elias

The father's injury, in this case, can be connected to guilt at having been away. He was not there for his father.

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Robert Gibson

That means I've got to keep the peeler going, ... There's hardly no place to move around.

Mike Soule

At first, everyone was upset with (cover charges) and we had a little backlash. But now we hardly ever hear about it.

Jan Egeland

They had hardly any roads at all and now they are gone.

Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

Bob Streeten

I was pleased to see us overcome a lackluster first quarter. I don't think we hardly got off a shot in the first.

Raymond Domenech

We hardly played during the first. We only looked at them playing,

Bill Gates

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

Phil McNichol

I'm just very impressed with the team we've been able to field.

Frank Coleman

That really impressed me; it's a significant figure.

Ryan Giggs

Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree. He impressed me from the start.

Tim Sheldon

I've been trying to get them to play with a little heart. We've been in this situation before and we've let down. They impressed me today.

Nat Harrington

We've been impressed and proud of the schools and students who have responded graciously and generously. Many students have spent their own lunch money and hard-earned savings to give to the victims of the storm.

Richard Wallace

You impressed me with the Senate, throwing everything in lock, stock and barrel.

Asa Dotzler

We're very impressed with the videos that have been contributed so far.

Sakie Yokota

I was impressed that they seriously listened to each of our comments.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Ron Shock

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Katori Hall

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Hank Davidson

He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.

Jerome Harrison

I think we were only getting three plays a quarter. I didn't realize it until the second quarter. I started getting cold, sweat drying off.

Bob Stoops

It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.

Clint Hurdle

It's still a long season. We'll see how it plays out.

Kim Maher

They are well prepared for the turf. It is a lot quicker surface. We need to be ready to make plays and be aggressive.

Gary Cole

It made no sense to put it in a metropolitan area. Most Southern plays are not set in the big city.

Mike Foley

It's another tough game. We had several chances. We had opportunities to score the whole game. They just made some big plays and capitalized on our mistakes.

Mike Foley

It's another tough game, ... We had several chances. We had opportunities to score the whole game. They just made some big plays and capitalized on our mistakes.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Bill Cowher

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He saw something in me I'm not sure I saw in myself.

Denny Green

He didn't get in. I thought he was in until I saw the replay.

Shun Long

I tipped it. I just saw it and I took it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

Omar Sharif

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Deepak Chopra

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

Stellan Skarsgard

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Randy Johnson

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Mick Jagger

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

Michelangelo Antonioni

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.